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DEFINITION:
Age dependency ratio is the ratio of dependents--people younger than 15 or older than 64--to the working-age population--those ages 15-64. For example, 0.7 means there are 7 dependents for every 10 working-age people.
CONTENTS
# | COUNTRY | AMOUNT | DATE | GRAPH | HISTORY |
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=1 | Niger | 1.04 | 2005 | ||
=1 | Mali | 1.04 | 2005 | ||
3 | Chad | 1.01 | 2005 | ||
4 | Angola | 0.96 | 2005 | ||
5 | Zambia | 0.95 | 2005 | ||
6 | Central African Republic | 0.89 | 2005 | ||
7 | Somalia | 0.88 | 2005 | ||
8 | Mauritania | 0.87 | 2005 | ||
9 | Namibia | 0.82 | 2005 | ||
10 | Gabon | 0.8 | 2005 | ||
11 | Solomon Islands | 0.76 | 2005 | ||
=12 | Bhutan | 0.75 | 2005 | ||
=12 | Sudan | 0.75 | 2005 | ||
=14 | Bolivia | 0.74 | 2005 | ||
=14 | Papua New Guinea | 0.74 | 2005 | ||
=16 | Paraguay | 0.7 | 2005 | ||
=16 | Belize | 0.7 | 2005 | ||
18 | Botswana | 0.69 | 2005 | ||
19 | Saudi Arabia | 0.67 | 2005 | ||
20 | Uruguay | 0.6 | 2005 | ||
21 | Oman | 0.59 | 2005 | ||
22 | Argentina | 0.58 | 2005 | ||
=23 | Suriname | 0.57 | 2005 | ||
=23 | Turkmenistan | 0.57 | 2005 | ||
=25 | Guyana | 0.53 | 2005 | ||
=25 | Norway | 0.53 | 2005 | ||
=27 | New Caledonia | 0.52 | 2005 | ||
=27 | Algeria | 0.52 | 2005 | ||
=27 | Mongolia | 0.52 | 2005 | ||
=27 | Libya | 0.52 | 2005 | ||
=31 | New Zealand | 0.51 | 2005 | ||
=31 | Iceland | 0.51 | 2005 | ||
33 | Finland | 0.5 | 2005 | ||
34 | Australia | 0.48 | 2005 | ||
35 | Kazakhstan | 0.46 | 2005 | ||
36 | Canada | 0.44 | 2005 | ||
37 | Russia | 0.41 | 2005 |